Cyclone Hudhud impact: Heavy rain kills 18 in Uttar Pradesh

Met officials said, the heavy rains since Tuesday had broken all
records and the day had witnessed the maximum rain in a day in October ever.

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Lucknow

October 15, 2014

UPDATED: October 15, 2014 11:14 IST

A truck got stuck on a temporary river bridge in Ranchi because of heavy rain caused by cyclone Hudhud. Photo: PTI

A truck got stuck on a temporary river bridge in Ranchi because of heavy rain caused by cyclone Hudhud. Photo: PTI

Heavy rains induced by the Cyclone Hudhud has left behind a trail of destruction, despair and death in many parts of Uttar Pradesh.

A state government spokesman on Wednesday confirmed the death of 18 people, adding that many houses had caved in eastern part of the state and standing crops had been destroyed. Though the incessant rains since Tuesday took a break on Wednesday, many areas in the state capital remained inundated and waterlogged.

Met officials said, the heavy rains since Tuesday here had broken all records and Tuesday witnessed the maximum rain in a day in October ever. While the past record of a single day rainfall in Lucknow was 46.1 mm (Oct 7, 2009), Tuesday's rains triggered by the Hudhud cyclone were 61.1 mm.

Many trees were uprooted and power lines snapped as the rains, accompanied by gutsy wind slammed the state capital on Tuesday. The maximum rains recorded since Tuesday were in Gorakhpur where rains clocked a new high of 142.1 mm in a single day. Wind speed here was 83 kmph.

Allahabad and Varanasi, too, witnessed heavy rainfall and the battering is likely to continue for the next 24 hours as well, the weatherman predicted.

JP Gupta, the regional Met director told IANS that within the next two days the effect of Hudhud would slow down and the rains would stop.

Cautioning, however, that the spell of rains might still continue, though in low intensity, met officials said the temperatures would remain low in next few days. Tuesday saw a fall of 10 degrees in day temperature with the maximum temperature being recorded at 22.5 degrees. This put Lucknow a wee bit colder than even the hill stations like Shimla.